The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ORANGE, Nj, successfully experimental with
an electrical street railway (half mile, and the
whole line, it is stated, will be equipped
with electric motors.
BALD EAGLE killed recently near Santa Rosa,
! Cal, measured seventy eight inches from tip to
| tip of his wings and its talons when opened,
| measured seven and quarter inches.
Sioux FALLS 3D. IT, MAN exhibited to his
friends large pickcrel which he had caught
! It weighed twenty three pounds. Finally twas
discovered that the fish had been stuffed with
stones to increase it's weight.
a LITTLE GIRL in Boston school who was
asked to define tho word redress promptly
replied that it meant female reader, Aud
! little girl in an English school recently gave
| 'gandress' as the feminine of 'gander.
OUT of thirteen samples of Toilet Cream"
warranted to beautify the complexion, analysed
by Washington chemist, every one contained
stuff certain to ruin the face after years use
and some of them were highly poisonous.
DANIEL MILLER, who recently died in Chequert
township, Ia at the advanced age of 102 years
8 months was the father of ten children, the
grandfather of seventy-one the great grand
father of 1856, and the great-great- grandfather
| of three.
In Bulgaria a journal is published in almost
every town and village where there is printing
office only all the papers contain the same
matter and differ only in their titles. Before
| the proclamation of the Principaty there were
forty-eight Bulgarian gazettes; since the liberia
ton the number has risen to eighty-i1ve.
QUEEN v1cToR1A's JUBILEE is also that of
telegraphy, the first patent for an electric tele-
graph having been issued June 20, 1SS7-a week
before the Queens accession-to Cook and
| WheatStone. British electricians propose to
celebrate with an exhibition illustrating the de-
velopment of telegraphy and telephony.
THE Boston Budget tells of little fellow who
@I,o N Aox-a md haCpo an
digging with his miniature spade. While so en-
gagged he came across q worm, and while watch
ing its, to him, strange motions. called out:
"Auntie, what is thatYH That my dear
came the reply, lis an angle worm Dood-
ness see him angle, was the succeeding child
ism comment
AN extraordinary accident is reported from
the neighborhood of NIaidenstone, Eng. lad,
years of age, was flying kite, when he step
ped backward into forty feet quarry to the
great horror of the bystanders Fortunately Tor
tine little fellow, the string of the kite was tied
around his waist and the kite acting as a para
chute effectually broke the violence Of the fall
and he was only slightly bruised.
In q BARRIERS shop in New York is a shaving
cup bearing the name of P. T. Barnum He
used to get shaved in Tom Higginson's shop as
far back as thirty years ago but it is some time
since he has used that cup. That was the shop
i'll which he bought an 1riShmanS turn IN the
chair, saying he would pay his bill, and Tom
Hggnson not only shaved the man, but sham
poOed him, curled his hair, dyed his beard gave
him a bath and ran up a bill OF several dollars
for Barnum to pay.
The shortest reigning monarch is the Emperor
of China, who is only feet high. Emperor
William. of Germany, is the talest, being just
feet in height Prince Albert, of Germany,
nephew of the Emperor, is feet inches high,
and the Emperor of Russia is 8 feet II inches.
The tallest man among Eastern nations is
Chang. the Chinese giant, who IS feet inches
high. The tallest European is Winckelmeer a
young Austrian, who measures s feet inches IN
stature.
PURSUING it's usual campaign of abuse against
the royal family of England, the Pau MaH Ga
zette lately paraded the announcement that dur
ing his visit to Hungary, year before last, the
Prince of Wales won at cards one evening at
Buda- Pesth nearly S93 900. and another evening
about $50, 900 more. OF course this set the Ga
zette's readers Allowing against EVIL in high
places" AS a matter of fact, however. the
Prince did not play single game nor win nor
lose a single penny during his entire stay in
Hungary.
THE lucidity of many English ideas concerning
America is beautifully apparent in an item in
the Queen, London. of recent date, which de-
clares that Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe,
who was noted for her great wealth and practi-
cal benevoence, died at Philadelphia on April
f. at her residence in Madison avenue, New York,
age GO years. She recently made over by deed
her large residence in Lafayette place for a
Bishops Club i'll which clergymen of the EpiS-
copal church could enjoy temporary entertain
ment when visiting New York"
THE committee of the Presbyterian church
of England are preparing revision of the Con-
fession of Faith, to be submitted at the coming
meeting of the Synod. 1t is reported that the
changes recommended will amount to a recon
, strucuon of the creed, and will be sure to lead
Ito profound agitation among the Presbyterians
throughout the world. A similar movement for
the revision of the standards of the Free Church
of Scotland has been postponed, to be resumed
after the English Synod has finished Its de-
Aberatons upon the committee report
J Ex-Gov SMITH, of Vermont relates the fol-
lowing: He was contemporary with John G.
SAKE in their early law practice in st, Adams
AS usual on court days in the evening the bar
was nuulerouSly represented on the hotel piaZ-
zaS. On one evening Smith was about explain
ing to a friend the merits OF a case he had on
the calendar relating TO a contract for wooden
water pipes, known as ''pump-logs," which
involved the size of the auger used in boring
them, when Sake interrupted him with: Il say,
Smith, Your story augurS bore PealS of
laughter followed, and the poets wit as usual
became the centre of attraction
A GERMAN OFFICIAL has been recommending
the extensive planting of basket willows on the
slopes of railway embankments and evacua-
tons, and particularly where the soil is loose.
These willows have been tried on one of the
principal railways of Prussia and have answer
ed admirably. a perfect network is made by
the roots, which binds the whole surface firmly,
the thick green growth transforming the raw
and CHASTITY gasheS in the earth into oeautifi /
thclet. The men who take care of and wat, h
the track can easily care for the willows, which
grow readily in dry as well as wet soil it it is
little loose, and where there is market for
basket material the growth can be profitable
L. A. ABBEY is said to make between $4,000
and $4,000 a year. His drawings for "She
Stoops to Conquer are valued at about $4,000.
He is as well liked in England as here, and ex-
poets to make that country his home. He is
building a fine house there. c. S. Reinhart
makes about $4,000 year Thure de THU
strup who is under contract TO furnish page
or double page to Hupe,'s Weekly every week,
is earning about $4,000 year with his pencil.
Charles j, Taylor, OF P'lck and Hdrpers, is
mailing $1,000 year A. b. Frost, who got II
fortune with, rs well as in his wife, makes $1,000
a year, but he has a separate income of 100000
a year. Harry Fem. pupil of Dirket Foster,
probably earns $1,000 now by general work,
and so does Alfred Parsons.
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